Here's what it looks like with a year or so of use if anyone's wondering (you'll have to adjust the time slider at the top and check the transportation box to see it all): https://move-o-scope.halftone.co/vis/user/f74ec38e53e658a1cf...
Man man, what was i naive.
- Can I make this bus? How long did it take me to walk from the doctors office last time? - I dropped my keys while walking the dog. I sent my wife a screenshot of my route and she walked it and found it. - Where did we park the car? - Do we have time to brunch? Looks like over the last few weeks we spend about 30-40 mins at that restaurant each time.
Plus, moves has definitely contributed to my exercise routine by forcing me to reckon exactly with what I accomplished. Now, I consider myself a very fit, very active person. If I was actually trying to lose weight and had specific fitness goals I would love the unbiased data this gives me.
My wife and I both use it. There are 2 big things I wish I could change:
1. SHOW ME TOTAL CALORIES GODDAMNIT. I'm so sick of adding up the bubbles. I usually hit 4-5k calories a week. The fact that I know that indicates how many times I've added up bubbles in my head.
2. For all the non-tracked activities, please let me enter a calorie count and not just a duration. If I spend 45 mins on the elliptical at high resistance, the computer will tell me I burned maybe 700 calories. If I enter 45 mins of elliptical into Moves it defaults to like 250 or whatever. This IS based on my body weight, height, etc, but it's an imperfect measure. So I have to lie and tell moves I did 120 mins or whatever to get as close as I can to the actual calories as measured by the machine.
Also, may I add one final comment: I wish all of the privacy-wonk types would just avert their gaze from Moves. We get it. You don't like Facebook. You don't like being tracked. You think I'm a fool for loving it. But THIS IS A TRACKER. That's what it does. If you're very concerned about this stuff, Moves is obviously not for you.
"We may share information, including personally identifying information, with our Affiliates (companies that are part of our corporate groups of companies, including but not limited to Facebook)" https://www.moves-app.com/privacy
Also amusingly I haven't opened up Moves since before the Facebook acquisition; when I did, it put up a completely black screen with the word "Proceed" at the bottom. I assume this was supposed to be showing me the new terms and conditions but who knows?
Well done though. Now we just need some kind of free/OSS clone of Moves so this is a little less unnerving.
